Download PDFOpen PDF in browserThe Value of the We Love Reading Program for Executive Functions In Jordanian Children11 pages•Published: February 12, 2020AbstractEarly childhood enrichment opportunities have been shown to shape Executive Functions (EFs), which in turn play a critical role in the development of academic skills, including school readiness and future educational achievement and mobility. We partnered with We Love Reading, a Jordan-based organization designed to promote reading for pleasure among children, in order to examine the impact of the WLR read-aloud method on executive functions in children. Children completed a battery of executive functions tasks and parents filled out behavioral and demographic assessments of their children. Over a six month interval with the WLR program, we found that the number of books in the home and the number of children that considered reading as a hobby had increased. Changes in reading in the home from baseline to post-WLR also predicted larger improvements in executive functions, and particularly for younger children and for families who reported lower family income.Keyphrases: children, development, executive functions, reading In: Claudia Urrea (editor). Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference, vol 3, pages 61-71.
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